What is Blogging
Blogging is a system through which you can convey your ideas, experiences, and opinions publicly or to a specific group. Literally speaking, it is like an online diary or journal where you can share your words with everyone. Those who write about various topics through blogs are bloggers. Also, everyone can read it and interact there.
Blogging helps you present your words in front of everyone and helps you connect with others, especially those interested in your writing. Additionally, you can earn a huge amount of income by blogging.
Types of Blogs
Blogging can be divided into different types depending on the purpose. Some of the popular types are:
1. Personal Blogging: When blogging, i.e., writing, is done for personal purposes, it is called a personal blog. Personal blogs are mainly about sharing personal opinions, ideas, and experiences. Personal blogging can be the best way to express your creativity in front of everyone.
This series of blogging started with the first personal blog. For those of you who want to share your own opinions, ideas, and experiences with everyone, personal blogging will fit.
2. Social Blogs: A social blog is a blog through which general aspects of society are discussed. Social blogs can be primarily focused on a particular group or community. They are basically made to write about what topics are currently popular and trending in society and bring social issues to everyone’s attention.
If you want to inform everyone about the current situation in society and what things will improve society, you want to reveal such things in front of everyone. Then you can create a social blog site and express your words there.
3. Business Blogs: Business blogs are created for any organization or company to announce new products, services, and various types of notifications. A business blog means that an organization promotes its overall affairs through that blog in front of everyone.
We probably know that every company creates these blogs to inform their customers about their updated news. Big companies mainly create this type of business blog. Moreover, many medium to small-sized businesses use it to bring their products in front of the public and promote them.
4. Affiliate Blogs: Blog websites that are mainly created for the purpose of doing affiliate marketing are basically called affiliate blogs. Affiliate blogs are mainly created for the purpose of affiliate marketing. They generate income by sharing different types of affiliate products on these websites.
Basically, these types of websites are of better quality and are rich in content. Also, it becomes relatively easy to get international traffic from such websites. Since it is possible to sell affiliate products in foreign countries, many people manage their activities by creating such affiliate blogs.
5. Review Blogs: A review blog is basically a type of blog where reviews of different products, services, or different types of materials or courses are provided. That is, how a common person feels about using that product, course, or service, or what his opinion is in this regard, such information is added to the review blog.
Assuming you want to buy a service, in this case, you want to know the reputation of the people you want to buy the service from and the feedback of those who have taken their course. These types of websites are becoming more popular nowadays than before.
6. Question and Answer Blogs: Currently, such question-and-answer blogs are available in all other countries starting from Bangladesh. A Q&A blog is basically a blog where someone asks a question, and another person comes and answers it. When a person wants to know something, they go to the blog and ask questions, and other people come and give answers there, and anyone can express their opinion there.
Nowadays, there are many such question-and-answer blogs on all subjects where you can ask questions if you have any doubts. Those who are experts or well-versed in these matters will come and help you with answers.
How to start Blogging Step by Step
If you want to know how to start blogging, below I am showing step by step how you can start blogging.
1. Select the topic: First, you need to choose the topic you want to blog about. One of the biggest ways to succeed in blogging is to choose the right topic. Try to select a topic in which you are an expert and have good knowledge so you can provide important information to your audience.
2. Choose the platform: Once you have your topic, the next thing you need to do is select the platform you want to work from. The most popular platforms in the world are WordPress and Blogger.
3. Select a Domain Name: A domain name is the address of your website. For example, our website has an address (onlinepassivehacks.com), so you also need to purchase such an address. When you go to select a domain name, keep in mind that the name must be attractive and easy to remember.
4. Set up the Blog: Once you have selected your platform and domain name, you need to create your website. Apart from this, it has to be customized and designed in such a way that it presents well in front of everyone. Try to make the website beautiful and attractive so that everyone wants to visit it again and again. Moreover, customize your website depending on your topic.
5. Creating the Informative Content: You should regularly write articles on your website and publish them in front of everyone. Keep in mind that your articles should be informative, interesting, and relevant to your audience. Try to write the articles in such a way that everyone can easily understand them. While writing informative articles try to give accurate information and try to give updated information so that users get correct information.
6. Optimizing for SEO: Once your article is written, it needs to be optimized for search engines. Your article needs to be properly SEO on-page so that it shows up first in search engines. You will get traffic to your website only when your articles show well in front of everyone.
7. Building backlinks: After your article is published, the next step is to get referral links from trusted and reliable sites for your website. You can increase your domain authority by getting backlinks from trusted websites, which will help in SEO and increase traffic.
8. Promote your website: After you write articles and do proper SEO and build backlinks, the task is to promote your website on social media and other mediums. Use platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to increase traffic to your website and promote it properly.
9. Monetize: Once your website has about 50 articles written properly and starts getting a good amount of traffic, you can monetize your website. That is, you can prepare for income. You can monetize in many ways like display advertising, affiliate marketing, etc.
Starting blogging is not a very easy task, but it is not a very difficult task either. If you can regularly write good articles and promote them in front of everyone and bring traffic, then you can earn and be successful in no time. But if you can’t write articles properly and get them in front of everyone, then it can be very difficult for you to start blogging.
How to Earn by Blogging
There are many ways to earn from blogging with the help of which you can easily monetize your website. Below are some ways to earn from blogging.
1. Display Advertising
Display advertising means earning through ads on your website. We all know that the best way to do display advertising is google AdSense. If you want to monetize your website using this medium, then you can earn a lot of income in a short period of time.
To get Google AdSense approval you need to write content and bring traffic according to their policies. Once your website gets approval on your website then you can earn by putting their ad on your website.
2 Affiliate Marketing
You can also earn a lot of income by doing affiliate marketing on your website. When you share an affiliate product on your website and someone buys that product, you will be paid a certain amount of money for that sale. The more products you can sell to others in the same way, the more income you can earn.
3. Sponsor ship
When you write the right article and get the right visitors, many companies often sponsor you to advertise their products and services to your visitors. They will pay you some amount in return when you deliver their products to your customers. This way you can earn by blogging.
4. Service offer
If you have any skill of your own, then you can use that skill to offer service to your visitors. Assuming you are good at content writing then you can promote your services to your visitors.
As a result, many people can buy articles from you. As a result, you can earn. Also, when you become an expert on a particular subject, you can offer any type of service you want to your visitors.
5. Course Sales
If you are very good at any one subject, then you can sell your own course to them if you want. You can use YouTube or social media to sell your course if necessary.
6. Guest Posting or Guest Authoring
When you increase domain authority on your website and bring huge amount of website traffic. Then many SEO experts and agencies will come to get backlinks from you. Then you can charge them some amount for each guest posting.
Let’s say you’re charging $10 for a guest posting. So if you can get 5 such guest postings per month then your income will be $50.
Basically, a big source of income for those who do international blogging is this guest posting. For this you must increase the domain authority of your website. Also, the website should bring sufficient amount of traffic and work on any particular topic. This will increase the earning potential from this sector to a great extent.
Remember that you need to put in a lot of hard work and patience to earn from blogging. You focus on creating unique and quality content audience and increasing website traffic. Then you will see many options of your income automatically.
From my above discussion you may have understood by now that blogging cannot be started suddenly. It takes a lot of time. Post a query in the comment section if you have any.
